Fastening inserting machine



March 8, 1932. P. cox ET AL FASTENING INSERTING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet Filed July 29, 1929 March 8, 1932. P. cox ET AL 1,848,163

FASTENING INSERTING MACHINE Filed July 29, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mains, 1932 f UNirsnisrares" saci'zgcox' AND new mum-mullet V UNITED SHOE MACHINERY 'TION/OF NEW J RSEY A A,

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oonrone'r'ion, orrarnnson, NEW JE R SEY,A con-tong;

gimme ms niarmqnhonrnn f This invention relates to fasteninginsert ing machines and is illustrated herein as embodied in a stapling machineprovided withwelt and shoe feeding and welt guiding mech- 3 anisin particularly adapted to -b e used infas= nent;

the welt hasbeen attachedto, the shoe-is.

, likely to mutilate theedge of thewelt; .Molej over, it is' diflicnlt to position the welt-.acc uw rately enough, if the operation isperformed in. this manner, to cause the welt to contact at all points as it should with the shoeupper.

To obviate these and other difficulties wehave invented the shoe and 'methodpf Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,687,267, granted October 9,1928. In the manufactnre of shoes in acordance with the method of said Letters Patent the welting is fastened to the 1 overlasted portion of the shoeupp the outsole is attached to the shoe. It is an object-of the pres'enti provide a fastening inserting machine particularly adapted to be used as an aid in carrying out the above method. "As illustrated herein, the inventionis embodied in :afitaple inserting machine, which may be of the well. known type disclosed inLetters Patent-of the United States No. 1,016,930, granted February13, 1912, on an application ofWilliam H;

er before Borden, provided with two power-operated feed rolls, one engaging the shoe upper adj a cent to the shoe; bottom and theiother engagingthe surface of thewelt; opposite the rolls serving tofeed the shoe and welt past the fastening inserting means; Pref erably' the: 7

machine is provided with a we1tg1'1ide'which serves to conduct the strip ofwelting to the'; 1 fastening inserting position, "As hereinfilln' stantial trimming operation performed Laft'er nvention to 7 v, overlasted portion of the shoe upper, the two trateda tech f the feed plriovilded a beveled gear, the two gears intermeshing I v and o'ne of the gears being mounted 'on an intermittently. rotated shaft so that the two rolls are given a step fhY-SlEQP ffeedin'gmove-.7

" With the" aboveand other objects and ,tures in'view the invention will now be; described as illustrated in the accompanying drawings andpointed out in the claims.

Inthe drawings: l i

Fig. '1 is" a front view temperate of the head' ofla stapleinserting inachineprovided with welt andshoe feeding mechanlsm and I with a Welt guid'e in present invention Fig. 2 is a front vi accordance with 'the welting is attached toftheshoe; I s Fig. 7 3 is .a perspective view of' the poweroperated vniech'anisin for operating the feed rolls step-hy-stepjand" i Fig. 4 is a side's chine andxthe manner in'whichthe strip 'of and associated parts of the machine. i The illustrated machine,"lil:e he machine of said Borden patent, is pi ovided with' a nozzle 10 having a throat opening12'thr01igh 1 i "which-reciprocates a driver 14 carried bythe reciprocating bar 16-.(Figs1anjd 2) wire 18 from which staples 20 are IfOrmed is fed 22,254 through a wire guide 26- past the knife 28 te-presentitto the inside former .30 and the-outside formers 32.. After alengthof leva'tion of the feeid -r oll 7 V g gs ewiilustratingthe I nerin which a shoe is presented to the mabyapair of intermittently -rotatedlfeed rolls J V .wire has been severed by the knife 28 the 7 outside formers are moved downwardly by. the counterclockwise"movement of a rock arm 34 (Fig, l)-to which they are connected,

rthreampinifigibf the: ie into "weak p i hf presentedjtg th .1 As illustrated v piece comprises a. shoe 36' to which 'is-to be Figs. 2, s and a, the waik thereby forming'a staple. "After this the 1 inside-former 30 iswithdrawn by mechanism provided for that "purpose and the driver 14 V V descends forcing' the staple {through 3 the s stapleda .,WeltT38 guidedtofasteninglinsent V illustrated in Fig. 3, to make this feeding ing the shoe and the welt past the nozzle of the machine, as indicated in Fig. 2. Preferably the feed roll 46, which engages the surface of the welt oppositethe overlasted portion of the shoe upper, is roughened, as

action more effective, while the surface of thefeed roll/l8 is smooth to avoid injuring the shoe upper. Journaled in the bracket 42 is a horizontal shaft which carries at its forward end the feed roll 46. A bevel gear 52 is secured to the feed roll 46 and meshes with a bevel gear 54 secured to the feed'roll 48 so that rotation of the shaft 50 serves positively to drive both feed rolls. The shaft 50 is power-operated by connections which will now be described. 7

Fast upon the main shaft 56 of the machine (Fig. 1) is a cam member provided with a'cam track 58 in-which is locateda cam roll 60 carried by a lever 62 fulcrumed at 64. Pivoted at 66 to the outer end of the lever is a link 68 the other end of which is attached to the upper end of a rack bar 70 mounted for approximately vertical sliding movement in a slideway 72 carried by the bracket 42. Loose upon the end of the shaft 50 is a pinion 7 4 meshing with the rack bar 70 and, accordingly, rocked first one way and then the otheras the lever 62 is oscillated by the rotation-of the cam shaft 56.

Secured'to the pinion 74 is an arm 76 to which is pivoted a spring held pawl 78 cooperating with a ratchet 80 fast on the shaft 50. Thus it will be seen that the shaft 50 is moved intermittently or step-by-stepin a clockwise direction, as viewed in the various figures of the drawings, thus rotating the feed roll 46 in the same manner and, by reason of the intermeshing relation of the bevel gears 52 and 54, rotating the feed roll 48 synchronously with the feed roll 46 in a direction to feed the shoe to the left, asviewed in Fig. 2.

In-the operation of the machine the end of the welting 38 is passed beneath the nozzle 10 of the machine, and the shoe is held by the operator with the upper and the edge of the welt in engagement with the periphery of the feed roll 48 andinposition to press 7 1 the welt 38 against the periphery of the feed roll 46. Then the machine is started and a staple is formed and inserted through the throat opening 12 of the nozzle 10, securing the end of the welt 38 to the overlastedportion of the shoe upper. The staple, as'illustrated, passes through the insole 81 of the .to rest and another staple isinserted. This operation is repeated progressively along the side of the shoe, around the toe and back along the other side. The welt may be attached, as preferred, either merely from the heel breast line to the toe of the shoe and back to" the heel breast line or about the complete periphery of the shoe including the heel seat.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States is:

1. A fatening inserting machine having fastening inserting instrumentalities, and two power driven feed rolls arranged to engage a shoe and a. strip of welting presented to the fastening inserting instrmnentalities andto feed the shoe and the welting therepast, the periphery of one 'ofthe feed rolls being arranged to engage the shoe upper adjacent to the shoe bottom and the other feed roll being arranged to engage a portion of the welt as it is attached to the shoe.

2. A machine for fastening welts to the uppers of lasted shoes having, in combination, fastening inserting means, and two power-operated feed rolls, one engaging the jacent to the shoe bottom and the other engaging the surfaceof thewelt opposite the over-lasted portion of the shoe upper, whereby the two rolls feed the welt and the shoe past the fastening inserting means.

- 4. A. machine for stapling welts to the uppers of lasted shoeshaving, in combination, staple inserting means and two power-operated feed rolls, the periphery of one engaging the shoe upper adjacent to the shoe bottom and the outer edge of the welt and the other engaging the upper surface of the welt adjacent to the staple inserting means to feed the shoe and the welt past the staple inserting means. i

5. A machine for stapling welts to the uppers of lasted shoes havinggin combination,

staple inserting means, a welt guide arranged to guide welting to the stapleinserting means, and two power-operated feed ro1ls,fone"enthe welt and the shoe past the staple inserting means. V 6. A. fasten ng insert ng mach1ne'hav ng fastening lnserting instrumentalities, and

two power driven feed rolls arranged toen-i gage a shoe and ad acent surfaces ofa StIlp' of welting presented to the fastening inserting instrumentalities and to feed the shoe and the strip of welting therepast, one of the feed rolls being rotated about a substantially vertical axis and engaging the shoe upper adjacent to the shoe bottom and one surface of the strip of welting and the other feed roll being rotated about a substantially horizontal axis and engaging another surface of the welting.

7. A welt attaching machine having fasten ing inserting instrumentalities, and poweroperated intermittently-drivenfeed rolls arranged to engage a shoe presented to the fastening inserting instrumentalities and to feed the shoe therepast, one of the feed rolls being arrangedto engage the shoe upper adj acent to the shoe bottom and the other feed roll being arranged to engage a strip of welt: ing as it is attached to the shoe bottom.

8. A machine for use in the manufacture of shoes having, in combination, staple forming and inserting instrumentalities and a pair of feed rolls rotatable about axes arranged substantially at right angles to each other, said staple inserting instrumentality moving in the plane of the axes of said rolls, one of the feed rolls being arranged to engage the upper of a shoe presented to the staple inserting means adjacent to the bottom of the shoe and the other feed roll engaging an element of the shoe bottom, a pair of inter meshing bevel gears, one of the gears being secured to each of the feed rolls, and means for intermittently rotating the bevel gears to feed the shoe pastthe staple inserting means. I a j 9. A machine for use in the manufacture of shoes having, in combination,'staple'form ing and inserting instrumentalities and a pair of feed rolls rotatable about axes arranged substantially at right angles to each other, said staple inserting instrumentality moving in the plane of the axes of said rolls, one of the feed rolls being arranged to engage the upper of a shoe presented to the stapleinserting means adjacent to the'bottom of the shoe and the other feed roll engaging an element of the shoebottom, a pair of interme shing bevel gears, one of the gears being secured to each of the feed rolls, and pawl'and ratchet mechanism arranged to rotate the bevel gears of shoes having, in combination, fastening inserting means, a feed roll arranged to engage a bottom elementof a shoe presented to the fastening'inserting means, a shafton 7 s ratchet mechanism for rotating the shaft and I which the feed roll is mounted, pawl and feed roll intermittently, a second feed roll feed roll and adjacent to the bottom of the shoe, said inserting meansmoving in aplane coincident wlth the common plane of the axes mounted for rotation about an axis substanj tially at right angles to the axis'of the first of said rolls, and a pair of intermeshing bevel gears, one of which is secured to each of the feed rolls whereby the second'feed roll is rotated intermittently in synchronismwith the first e i 11. A machine foruse in the manufacture of'shoes having, in combination, staple forming and inserting means, a feed roll arranged to engage a bottom element of a shoepresented to the staple inserting means, a, shaft on whichthe feed rollis mounted, pawl and ratchet mechanism for rotating said shaft and feed roll step-by-step, a second feed roll mounted for rotation about an axis substantially at right angles to the axis of the first feed roll and adjacent to the bottom of the shoe, said inserting means moving in a plane coincident with the common plane of the axes of said rolls, and a pair of intermeshing bevel gears, one of which is secured to each of the feed rolls whereby the second feed roll is rotated step-by-step in synchronism with the first.

combination, fastening inserting means, a

r s i 12. A'welt attaching machine having, in

welt guide constructed and arranged to guide welting to the'vicinity of the fastening inserting means, a feed roll arranged to en-' gage the welting as it is attached to thebottom of a shoepresented to the fastening in-t serting means, a shaft on which the feed -rollv ismounted, pawl and ratchet mechanism for:

rotating said shaft step-by-ste a. second feed roll mounted for rotation a out an axis at right angles to the axis of the first feed roll and adjacent to the bottom of the shoe,

anda pair of int'ermeshingbevel gears, one 7 of which is secured to each of the feed rolls,

'whereby the second feedroll is rotated stepby-step in synchronism with the first.

In testimony whereof we have signed 'our names to this specification.

, PERCY COX. i

FRANK MOPARTLAND.

inserting means.

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